Before, During & After the Fall: Dürer at MOBIA

The German painter, printmaker, draftsman, graphic designer, typographer, and art theorist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was unhappily married. Erwin Panofsky, in his unsurpassed monograph on the artist, reminds us that this fact, though it may seem trivial, illuminates Dürer's importance to the Northern Renaissance. Click Images for Slideshow Museum of Biblical Art Albrecht Dürer, 'The Expulsion From Paradise, Small Passion, 3' (1510). Dürer's wife, "Agnes Frey," Panofsky writes, "thought that the man she had married was a painter in the late medieval sense, an honest craftsman who produced pictures as a tailor made coats and suits." What she got instead was a husband who "discovered that art was both a divine gift and an intellectual achievement requiring humanistic learning, a knowledge of mathematics, and the general... [read full story]